We all got ready and went out into the city, our hostel was pretty much
in the downtown area which was awesome and convenient, not that Galway is that big anyway. We headed over to the main street for some bar hopping, and just
took turns buying rounds, omg the Guinness in Ireland is soo much better than
it is in north america/spain. We went to some pretty cool places, some with traditional décor, some with live music, altho pretty
much nowhere was serving food which kinda sucked so we ended up getting italian
food for dinner, so random right. The pasta was good but a little pricey, my friend found a little pearl in her pasta
with mussels, which was random and kool! We hit up another bar then just went home because we were
exhausted from traveling and we wanted to get up early to do some sight seeing the next day.
In our
hostel room there was the 5 of us, this american couple who were annoying as
hell and this older guy who looked like humpty dumpty plus a couple random
girls we never met. We all went to bed around 2:30 although I couldnt sleep because the couple were on the bed in front of mine and they were watcing the Big Lebowski so the light from their laptop was in my face and they kept laughing
and whatever. Kind of obnoxious. For awhile I just gave up and watched it with them for a bit but i eventually wanted to sleep so I asked my friend toss me my ipod. Then there was also humpty dumpty sleeping below
me, he was snoring and moving around and sneezing and coughing and whatever
else, was an interesting night. Next morning we got up early and went on
the tour to the Cliffs of Moher, it was gorgeous, the weather was mostly sunny with some clouds, we stopped at a few historical and cultural sites along the coast of Ireland, drove along lots of tiny roads which our very Irish bus driver/tour guide described as 'tight as a fish's ass' ahaha before stopping in this cute little town of Doolin for lunch, the fish and chips there were amazing! We got to the
cliffs around mid afternoon, the sun was shining and the view was spectacular, we walked along the cliffs for awhile, taking lots of pictures and resting on cliff sides here and there. It was a whole day trip pretty much, we left around
11:30am and didn't get back till about 7pm because after the cliffs we stopped at one more site of an old castle and then drove the long way back to Galway along the cliffs. When we got back though we had to run around like crazy
people trying to shower/get ready back at the hostel because there was
a pub crawl our hostel was running which started around 8/8:30, it was quite a sight.
Thankfully the
couple had checked out and there was a new guy in our room, he's around our age from the USA, super tall and lanky, he was an odd ball but a pretty kool guy all the same. We felt kinda bad for him since it was just him and the 5 of us in the room when we got back and we were
all running around this tiny room trying to get ready. It was
actually hilarious, 5 girls fighting for the one mirror and one straightener in the room while he stood awkwardly by his bed, the poor guy. As we were leaving we noticed that there appeared someone's stuff on my bed and that there was now stuff in one of the drawers under the bed, we didn't know if humpty dumpty had checked out but it didn't look like it. So either someone had just left their stuff on my bed or I was short a bed for the night due to over booking? We asked the guy at the front desk about before we left but it said that everything was fine. hmm. Finally, we made it out to the first pub of the pub
crawl, met up with some other UBC-ers that Mara knew which was awesome, and
then met up with two guys from granada as well. We went to a bunch of kool pubs, we got a free drink at all of them as part of the deal, one had live traditional irish music, one had a crepe place outside, one had a live band doing awesome covers, and one even had a stag/stagette party at it, which was hilarious! They were all in ridiculous costumes and whatnot. We met some kool people from all over europe in our pub crawl group, saw lots of
hilariously drunk irish people, and may have gotten some free beer here and there too aha.
Lots of
shots and beers later we ended up a club as the last stop on the crawl, we got
another drink when we got there and then danced lots, the tall lanky american guy was too funny, his dancing was so bad and so entertaining at the same
time ahaha probably the worst dancer I have ever seen, definitely made my night. At the bar I met a guy, tall, dark haired and Irish of course, he bought me a drink we talked for awhile longer and then I went
back to find my friends. We ran into each other again a bit later, talked for a little while, then I danced more
with my friends, then ran into him again and went back to bar, he bought me
another drink and we talked some more, he was gunna buy me another one but by then I was definitely drunk enough so I said no, then he asked if I wanted to get out of
there with him and I said yes, so went and found my friends and told
them I was leaving...before you think anything too horrible of me, as you may recall there was possibly someone occupying my hostel bed which had been in the back of my mind the whole night so I actually kinda needed somewhere to stay because as it turns out they had overbooked the room and there was a girl in my bed so I would have had no where to sleep had I gone back to the hostel plus I got 22 euros back from
the hostel management. Woot. Anyways, so we left the club and caught a cab to his place,
he's from Galway and lived about 5mins outside of the centre, he lives with his
family since he's doing his masters at Galway uni but his parents and sister were gone for the weekend so it was only him and
his brother who were home for the weekend.
Got up at like 8:30ish because I had to get back to the hostel to meet the
girls since our check out time was 10am and Irish guy had to go into town to meet
friends before work or whatever. Got
back to the hostel, felt like death and couldn't get back into the hostel room because apparently the door code had changed, luckily Mads heard me trying
to get in and opened the door. It was only like 10 to 9 but there was a girl in my
bed so instead of going back to sleep I just ended up in the hostel kitchen
area double fisting coffee and water, I was so freaking hungover, I actually
still may have been drunk aha the only thing I had eaten the day before was a crepe
and lunch at like 3pm on the cliff tour trip, definitely a bad idea to drink on such
an empty stomach. There was this older irish guy and this quiet Argentinean
girl sitting near me in the kitchen and we all started talking, I was pretty
dead but the irish dude was so chatty I kinda got sucked into it, he definitely
was missing a few marbles but he was really nice and he actually got me the coffee so can't complain. The rest of the girls started showing up around 9/9:30 and our guy friends showed up
around 10 so we got our stuff together, checked out, got breaky and then headed into the main square to
watch the parade. It was pretty awesome parade, so many cute kids in costumes, floats, cultural clubs, and
lots of irish dancing which was kool. After the parade we ran around grabbing food and doing other last minute errands, I was finally started to get over the hangover and then we caught a bus back to Dublin just after 2,
We got
there around 4:30pm then had to find a way to contact my friend who were
staying with in Dublin. Eventually we found this odd little cafe/restaurant/club place and finally got in contact with him using the sketchy wifi, we were gunna meet him around 5:30 by Trinity
college, we were suppose to meet 2 other girls from granada there too but we had barely
any contact with them so we had no idea where they were since they didnt seem
to be at the meeting spot when we got there. We got there more like 5:45 since it took us a little while to find Trinity college but luckily when we got there we found my friends although there was no sign of the 2 girls anywhere. We waited around for a couple minutes then decided we should just head for the apartment, and try contacting them again from there. While walking though we
actually saw them across the street at an intersection purely by chance which was insane !!! Thank god tho, who knows how long it would have taken us to find them otherwise. Luck of the Irish or something eh.
So we got to the apartment and there was like 15-20 guys there already
drinking, we threw all our stuff into some of the bedrooms then met a
bunch of them (one of them was from Toronto and studied at UofT go figure) and started drinking some beer, a bit later they did
another beer run so we pitched in, we drank there for awhile, at some point a
few of us were hotboxing in one of the bedrooms then we drank so more..4 or 5
or 6 beers later we all headed out to find a bar/club to go to. Unfortunately sometime during the house party 2 girls had left their stuff somewhere in the living room and ended up having some money missing, we have no idea who it was or how it could have happened since there was always part of our group in the living room but there was neighbours and random friends and whoever coming in and out of the house all night..anyways the ended up freaking out and leaving for the airport around 11:30pm, it was really unfortunate, I felt terrible. When they headed for the airport Mads went with them since she had a lot of studying and assignments to work on so then it was just Aless, Kiki, Mara, and I left with the guys.
We ended up at
this club which was kinda empty at first but it was only 5 euros to get into because one of the guys we were with knew some of the people working there, so we figured why not? We didnt know at
the time but the guys we were with definitely had a bit of money to throw around because we went into the club and
like 10mins later we were led into one of the little side room areas with black leather couches and little round tables and soon after 8 buckets of alcohol showed up, by then there was like 30 or so of
us in the small back room. Soon enough everyone was pretty gone, dancing around, going from the room back to the bar/dance floor for awhile but eventually always ending up
back in the private room. I flirted with a guy from uganada and a guy from Ireland and a few others, aless drank way too much so one of the guys from the apartment took her home, eventually I started
chugging water to try and sober up a bit since we all had early morning flights. Kiki and I went to leave around 3am, Mara and this nigerian guy Ed ended up leaving with us, we finally got all our shit and went out to the
street and then Mara and Ed disappeared. Luckily we ran into a couple of the
guys from the apartment cuz we didnt really know where we were going, we ended
up at this grocery place called SPAR because we were all drunk and starving, there
was like a thousand people in there so took awhile aha everything was so chaotic
and messy ohman, there was one guy just outside of SPAR that had gotten beaten
up and had a really bloody face and shortly after that the police showed up. There was like 2 gajillion ppl in the streets, somehow eventually we got back to the
apartment, everyone was in the living room half passed out because the main bedroom
with all the mattresses was being occupied by 2 of their friends having sex so
me and one of the guys, Andrew went out and got pizza down around the corner which was
amazingly delicious. Eventually the guys yelled at the two in the bedroom
enough till they stopped so we could go in grab our shit because we had to leave for
the airport and the guys wanted to go to bed. It was like 4:45 when we left the
apartment, we had to leave so early since aless and kiki's flight was at
6:30am, mine wasnt till 9am but everyone besides the 3 of us and Mara were
already at the airport so I didnt wanna stay at the apartment by myself all
those guys. It took awhile to hail a cab because it was still super busy in the
streets, these 2 girls tried to steal our cab but I bitched them out since the other 2 had to catch their flight.
We all got to the airport and split up cuz we were in different terminals, I just chilled around for awhile and eventually took a bit of a nap around 7:30-8:15 in this dark room with comfy round, red chairs where they were playing these weird 60 second movies. I got to my gate around 8:30 when the
boarding was starting and was looking for the 2 granada girls who were
also on my flight but ended up spotting kiki and aless first because aless was wearing her bright green top and I was like wtf?! Of course they missed their flight, they had passed out somewhere in the airport at a restaurant and decided to take a 15min nap, slept through all their alarms and missed their boarding time..epic fail (it costed them 300 euros each for the new flight.) So the 5 of us flew back together
after that disaster, we got into malaga around 1:45pm, got to the bus station a
bit after 2, got food and then caught the 3pm bus home, I slept the majority of
the plane ride but I was studying on the bus back because I had a midterm at 5pm,
so ridiculous. We literally got back into Granada at 4:45pm, caught a cab and I got to campus right at 5pm, booked it into my class and wrote my midterm ahaha I think it went ok.. I dont really know though since I was so dead...yup so there is the tale of my St. Paddy's day.
